PSYC 410 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Migraine, Multiple Sclerosis, Neurology
Jean Martine Charcot
• Influences Freud
• Other forms of psychopathology as well as hysteria but not as often in nuns
• Already getting in the mindset that way I think there might be something else
going on here now charcot was also fascinated with brains he looked at braids he
collected brains he like to throw a brain on a table and just kind of with his hand
on the table stare at it for the longest time is kind of an oddball bed and he could
not find in examining these brains any signs of pathology it just would not
jumping out of here national Co is the careful neurologist he's going to be one of
the early guys to write on multiple sclerosis who is going to be one of the early
guys to ride on Parkinson's disease he won nearly guys to write on Lou Gehrig's
disease or what's called a LS fact in Europe is called sharko's disease these
comfortable with a world where I can where he can spot a psychopath ology in
physical symptoms his comfortable with the world in which they can categorize
disease and say OK these symptoms equal this ailment he's uncomfortable with
the idea of hysteria being so ambiguous so amorphous so we don't know what it
is So what is he going to do well he is going to argue that hysterias been over
implicated as a catchall we don't know what's wrong with this woman we're just
going to say Hey guess what got hysteria he's also going to stand back of it he
gets very much in the migraines he's fascinated with my grades in the new bad
migraines daughter to be other symptoms besides the pain that can be tingling
there can be mild paralysis there can be slurred speech there's all kinds of things
that you can experience as part of this migraine and he is going to believe there's
got to be a physical component as much as I may want to believe with all in the
mind
• He began to push on her abdomen and put pressure on her ovaries and sure
enough and sharko rights immediately an attack of rhythmic Korea breaks out
the patient remains sitting in her consciousness is preserved her head suddenly
begins to turn from right to left and then from left to right in rhythmic alteration
with equal pauses between the individual movements simultaneously her right
arm begins to go up and down as a result of which her right hand beats regularly
on her knees as a drum heads on a drum the movements of the hand are
synchronized with those of the head Meanwhile the right foot is stopping noisily
on the floor there are approximately 100 tweets of the foot and 3 times as many
of the hand in a minute so she's really twitching
• and all you do is press her over it's OK he's saying a hard time finding some
evidence here that there is the physical component submitted the trigger here
now charcot goes on in the start squeezing the testicles on men and find similar
symptoms you know it could be quite painful maybe that's why somebody's
dancing around in the darkness question contested goals or impressing your
ovaries it's like that your guy but for sure doe Hey guess what I found a trigger
• well anyway in 1870 sharpen was given jurisdiction over a war in which there
were epileptics people with epilepsy or when was empathy and mild side post
people with women again there miles ago he put together and the contagion
effect again I think I've mentioned this in an earlier incident the women with the
mild psychoses began to have seizures
• and sharko is going to say Hey guess what I think there might be something
called his staraoke epilepsy is sterile epilepsy this is the term starts using voice
now he began to wonder how he treated he got into hypnosis I had no sis had
fallen the wayside thanks to mezmur would talk about but there was a fellow
named James
• James Bray and he left his 1795 to 1860 he began to look at it academically he
began to study it in fact he would tell people trying to rescue it that has been
discredited and thanks to mezmur and he's practitioners who do his little shows
with hypnosis and that kind of thing
• well charcot believes building on braids work that only somebody with hysteria
to be hypnotize another word something is hypnotized they likely have hysteria
So what charcot began to do was have these demonstrations he's going to
